Kellie Pickler must have been tormented on how her mom is doing. Cynthia Malone is the name of Kellie Pickler’s mother who abandoned her when she fled a relationship with Kellie’s father, is indeed thinking about her. Kellie was only 2 years old at the time her mom left.
“Leaving my baby [was the worst thing I felt]… Leaving my baby. That was the hardest decision I had to make,” Malone said during a television interview that aired while her estranged daughter, whom she abandoned when Kellie was a toddler, was performing her single “I Wonder” at the 2007 County Music Association Awards ceremony on Wednesday night.
“The only regret that I have looking back at my life… I have to forgive myself for what I did,” Malone told WGHP-TV, a North Carolina Fox affiliate. “If I had a choice, or if I had the tools that I have today, I would have done something so much different.”
The song centers on the American Idol fifth-season finalist’s relationship with Malone — and Kellie was visibly emotional throughout the performance, leaving Nashville’s Sommet Center stage in tears and speaking the last line of the song instead of singing it.
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